Sentences with phrase «hunt polar bears»

A conservation photographer took some amazing shots of a pride of lions with a custom made «BeetleCam,» the very rare pink katydid was spotted in the wild, a Chinese businessman paid $ 80,000 to hunt polar bears in Canada and more.

The Inuit people still hunt polar bears for meat and fur, but hunting is carefully regulated by a quota system, according to Polar Bears International.

Then, are we really going to tell our native tribes and rich hunters that they can no longer hunt polar bears?

He concludes that the inhabitants of Zhokhov probably bred the smaller dogs for sledding, and may have bred the larger one to hunt polar bears.

The nemesis of the arctic explorer; plenty of them have tried to hunt polar bears, foolishly eaten the liver, and died due to it being the richest source of vitamin A in the world.

He concludes that the inhabitants of Zhokhov probably bred the smaller dogs for sledding, and may have bred the larger one to hunt polar bears.

«My father used to go hunting polar bear a lot,» Max says.

He hunted polar bears, shooting a near record 11 - foot male bear off the coast of Siberia in the 1960s.

In Canada, they were originally used as sled dogs and for hunting polar bears.

The continuing warming and summertime retreats of sea ice around the North Pole are making life difficult for seal - hunting polar bears, eroding Inuit coastal villages and now, evidently, eroding Arctic defenses (although not weakening them, the Pentagon insists).

The other neat thing about igloos is that you can plop a chunk of seal - meat down in the middle of it, then go out hunt a polar bear.

Oliver Ramsay says: March 2, 2011 at 10:07 pm The other neat thing about igloos is that you can plop a chunk of seal - meat down in the middle of it, then go out to hunt a polar bear.

Not exact matches

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

Dismayed by the disconnect between reality and the cartoonish animals populating his young daughter's pajamas, books and view of the natural world, journalist Mooallem sets off to explore often circuitous human - animal relationships: The once - feared polar bear has become the cherished mascot of climate change, and whales, once hunted without restraint, now attract near - fanatical rescue efforts.

Species targeted include the polar bear, already under threat due to climate change: Shrinking sea ice makes it harder for the animals to hunt seals, their main food source.

So changing the climate is far from the only way humankind could affect polar bear energy and hunting dynamics.

In addition to polar bears, which were mostly hunted in winter, the Zhokhovians pursued reindeer hundreds of kilometers across vast plains.

Nineteen separate polar bear populations live throughout the Arctic, spending their winters and springs roaming on sea ice and hunting.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

In March 2010, Eline Lorenzen was hunting for polar bears... sort of.

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

The listing does not protect the polar bear from being hunted by natives for food and other resources.

Such hunters have in the past spent thousands of dollars to have native guides take them on polar bear hunts, a practice that may fall out of favor in light of the new classification.

Furthermore, we assumed above that all neurons of one type behave in the same way in all normal brains, just as all polar bears hunt seals under normal circumstances.

At Bellsund, where the marooned Englishmen had originally come to hunt, they dined on 3 walruses, 11 polar bears, 19 reindeer, 50 foxes and 60 ivory gulls.

Global warming has caused big problems for polar bears, which depend on sea ice for access to the ocean so they can hunt seals and other prey.

Stirling's team found that around the town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay — the «polar bear capital of the world» — the number of bears reported as attacking humans, homes and hunting camps more than tripled between 1970...

As sea ice disappears, polar bears are being forced to hunt more on land, which brings them into conflict with humans and increases contact with brown bears.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

(This status allowed the Administration to create a special rule exempting greenhouse gas emissions — which are, through global warming, melting the artic sea ice used by the polar bears for hunting — from regulation under the Endangered Species Act.)

Before the melt, when they were hunting on stable sea ice, the polar bears had a big advantage over their favoured prey.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

Rapid global warming is said to be ringing the death knell for polar bears, by melting their icy hunting grounds.

AS POLAR bears roam the Arctic sea ice hunting seals, they are wasteful with their energy.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

And it's sad when polar bears have no ice for their food hunt.

Sea ice also provides crucial coastal protection in the Arctic, hunting grounds for local tribes, and habitats for creatures from polar bears to seals.

• In 2012 sought sanctions to stop Canada's unsustainable polar bear hunt that violates an international polar bear treaty.

Canada and other range countries have now agreed to a joint reporting program for all hunting and polar bear trade.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

These dogs were a huge help to the natives as they were used to hunt seals, chase away polar bears and pull heavy sledges loaded with food or camp supplies.

They were used to hunt seals, chase away polar bears, and sled dogs.

The dogs served as hunting partners for big game (such as seals and polar bears), and hauled the heavy carcasses back home.

Other dogs were more massive at 30 kg and appear to be dogs that had been crossed with wolves and used for polar - bear hunting.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

While utilized as a sled dog, in the past, he was also helpful as a hunting dog for the Inuit hunters helping them catch seals, ox and even polar bears.

As you head farther south you may get lucky and spot polar bears hunting for seals.

Also, as warming temperatures limit seal hunting opportunities on the ice, adult male polar bears will likely fare the best, securing the best sites from smaller bears (females, subadults).

Before declaring the polar bear endangered, we could start with a hunting moratorium (protected status).